Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū l-Karam Ibn Maṭrūḥ. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Containing many prescriptions, including one "for the womb and hemorrhoids" and another attributed to the book of Isḥāq b. […] There are also intriguing designs in red ink in the margins.

תגים

• list
• medical

אין רשומות קשורות

List (fragment) of recipients of charity, including ghulam Hosha'na and "the widow of the shaykh Abu al-X" and two "ma`rifas," meaning people "known" by a local resident, who vouched for their deservedness.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Aramaic

Description of disasters, famines and frightful events due to happen in each of the Jewish months, mentioning the Jews and their slavery, the Arabs and their need for food, and the River Nile and its drought.

תגים

• astrology
• brontologia
• disaster
• prognostication

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unusual document containing meeting minutes relating to the business dealings of someone whose name is too faded to read (r2). […] ." (2) Meeting with Zekharya ha-Sofer: regarding copies and blank notebooks and exhorting him to fulfill prior instructions ("and let there be no third party other than God") and to bind the book that had been left with him[…] . (6) Mentions Shemuʾel the son of the brother of al-Rav; the rest is too damaged to read

תגים

• account
• business
• private

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She conveys her yearnings, "I am writing to you, my son, the dearest to me of all people, may God grant you length of days and perpetuate your eminence and His help to you and your happiness and your wellbeing and may He bestow much favor upon you, from the house in Raqqa, on Thursday, 21 Av [=August]. […] What could be easier than writing a letter and easing my mind? Do not kill me before my time. [...] All I ask of you is to write me a letter from time to time, so that I will know you are healthy."

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תגים

• fasting
• mail-order medicine
• personal
• threatening to die

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of a pair of letters written by Umm Sitt al-Nās to family members when she had been thrown out of her husband's and mother-in-law's house. […] The least she did was that she said to me: 'Go away and become like your notorious mother.'" […] For more, see T-S 10J9.13 and Goitein's translation and discussion of the other letter in Med Soc III:175f.

תגים

• ibn sabra
• women's letters

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Tishrei 1444 Anno Mundi

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. […] The same trip of Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī is mentioned in IB VI, 28 = Moss. Ia,18 (PGPID 9199), ll. 24–25. […] Ia,18 and T-S AS 155.101 are by the same sender and deal with similar matters. (Al-Tīz is also mentioned in IB I,14 = T-S 28.22 (PGPID 5358), r11.)

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• al-tiz
• ib-addenda
• ib6
• india book unedited

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of a local Jewish leader to his superior in the Egyptian capital. The first part of the letter is irrelevant to polygyny, thus it is excluded from the work. Awaiting more detaileddescription. Reused on verso for legal formularies in a different hand.

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תגים

• communal
• polygyny

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter begging for help from a communal authority ('sayyidnā'), written by Abu Sahl b. al-Ahuv during a famine. […] Abu Sahl's dependents include an old woman and a sick man who cannot sleep day or night. […] He concludes by asking the recipient to investigate the young man (Ibn Imran) who plunged them into this desperate state. ASE.

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תגים

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: poverty
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps notes for a sermon. It starts by describing a stroll on the Sabbath following Pentecost to 'the observatory' (al-raṣad) to get some fresh air (natanashshaq). One of the members of the party, Elʿazar b. Shelomo asked the writer "What is the mountain of God?" […] Dating: A previous PGP description listed this as 11th century, but it is not clear on what basis.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Kislev 1459 Seleucid (27 October 1147–25 November 1147 CE)

Abū l-Faraj Mikhaʾel ha-Meshorer. The man is probably named Abū l-Ṭāhir Shemuel b. Natan. (A previous description listed his profession as al-kaḥḥāl, but it is not clear where this is written.) […] NB: When Goitein cites ENA 4011.51 (e.g., in Med Soc V, 135, 542), he means ENA 4011.50.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a trader in India to his cousin, who was also his brother-in-law, in Egypt. […] The letterdemonstrates the tension between the writer’s belief in the legitimacy of his extended family’s claim on his resources, on the one hand, and his anger at their irresponsible conduct. […] (Information from CUDL, from Goitein, Med. Soc., 3:35, from Krakowski, “Female Adolescence,” 166n20, from Marina Rustow and from Alan Elbaum)

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תגים

• ib7
• india book
• java
• letter etiquette

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū l-Khayr, Bū l-Fakhr. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Fragment of a detailed report about the colors and development of crops, as part of a will. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards and Mediterranean Society, IV, 418)

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תגים

• qaraite
• will

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment with texts in Hebrew script on the recto and verso, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. The recto mentions the name David, a thousand of something, and copper. […] Requires further examination. NB: this description applies to a different fragment, probably also in the ENA NS folder.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1154 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: October–November 1154 CE. Description from PGPID 5539: Note from Hajjaj, in Messina, to Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, regarding a consignment sent to Yosef by his sons.

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תגים

• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book
• trade

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Inferred date

1133–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) II, 16: Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju.

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תגים

• ib2
• india book

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Letter in Ladino, nearly complete but with numerous lacunae, from a mother to her daughter, addressed to her son-in-law Yaʿaqov Reshit (?) […] She is also disgruntled about learning about her new grandson through a third party: "You did not write me to tell me that you gave birth to a boy. […] Kisses to the boys from me. And peace." Her signature seems disgruntled as well: "That which you wish to see, that I, your mother, write to you."

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תגים

• ladino
• saida
• textiles
• women's letters

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1142–1159 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. […] Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-A[...]ān and vice versa, for all partnerships and transactions and other liabilities between them, except for a debt of 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars owed by Avraham to Abū Zikrī, which was documented in another legal document drawn up on the same date. […] Shemuʾel and Efrayim b. Meshullam (dated documents: 1142–59).

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תגים

• ib5
• india book

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's daughter to her maternal uncle ʿEli b. Hillel, the deputy overseer (nā'ib al-nāẓir) of Bahnasa. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] She reports in the margin on the sad condition of Sitt Ikhtiyār, who has been bedbound (rāqida lāzima) for three months with hectic illness (ʿillat al-diqq). "There is nothing left in her but that we say, 'right away, right away'"—does this mean they wait on her hand and foot?

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bedbound
• illness: hectic
• illness: reporting speech
• (+ 6 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably late 12th century. Quite detailed. Not immediately clear if mercantile or communal. […] Ibn Nufayʿ... al-Murjānī (the coral merchant)... (ENA NS 76.435.3) Ṭāhir... the rent of a house... al-Shaykh al-Makīn." […] Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi.

תגים

• qodesh

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday, 21 Iyyar 1371 Seleucid (24 April 1060 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of release (שטר פיצוי). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 Iyyar 1371 Seleucid = 24 April 1060 CE. […] Khalaf Ibn al-Ḥirbish (aka Meshullam b. Yefet) releases Dalāl bt. Salm[ū]n (or Salm[ā]n) b. […] Signed by Yehuda b. Menashshe, Moshe b. Shelomo, Nissim b. ʿAmram, Yosef b.

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דיון אחד

Document date

537 Hijrī (27 July 1142–15 July 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script, in large letters with wide line spacing. Reminiscent of state accounts, but likely private. E.g., "Owed by Ibn al-Kaʿkī...." Various dates are mentioned, including 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Also refers to the rent paid by a deceased man. The second row of T-S AS 132.176 mentions ambergris; the third row begins "wa-ayḍan," and the fifth row looks like it mentions "the shroud of the mother" (fī kafan al-wālida), but this is probably wrong.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

23 Nisan [4810] Anno Mundi (18 April 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from both Nahray b. Nissim (recto) and ʿAyyāsh b. […] Given that the capitation tax was most often paid in the first half of the year (as opposed to the final month of the year as Gil believed), this letter most likely dates to 1050 CE. Gil's dating of the document to April 1051 CE is less likely but also possible. Apart from the tax receipt issue, deals with various other business matters. ʿAyyāsh mentions that he plans to travel to Raqqa.

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תגים

• capitation tax

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (original use): Legal document written on parchment, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. […] The epithet al-ʿĀdilī is less clear; the vizier Ibn al-Sallār was known as al-ʿĀdil, however he died in 1154.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). At one point the sender calls the addressee 'my daughter' (yā bintī). Mentions the name Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Faraḥ (the same merchant known from many other letters ca. 1050?). […] In a postscript the sender apologizes that 'my letters to you are empty, because I don't have enough (to buy) anything"—maybe an allusion to an expectation that a gift would be sent along with a letter.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment by a certain Yaʿaqov recounting the episode that led him to break off his partnership with others in a wine press. […] He invites the recipient to spend the holiday with him. Mentions Abu l-Ḥasan, Abu l-Fadl, Zikri, Zikri’s nephew, and Ḥasan the messenger.

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תגים

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• nar

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Shawwāl 400 Hijrī (18 May 1010–15 June 1010 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Dated: Shawwāl 400 AH (May–June 1010 CE). […] Asad al-Zajjāj al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish glassmaker") receives a loan of five dinars from [...] al-Shaṭranjī al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish chess player"). The dīnārs are described as "red" (danānīr ḥamrāʾ). There are a few words on verso in Hebrew script that Khan describes as a pen trial.

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תגים

• red dinars

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Abū l-Fakhr, al-Daqqāq, and Bū ʿAlī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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דיון אחד

Document date

5555 Anno Mundi (25 September 1794–13 September 1795 CE)

Fragment of a calendar mentioning the year 5555 AM (1794/1795 CE). A variety of equivalent years are provided for the Hijrī , Gregorian, and Coptic calendars as well as the count of years since the destruction of the Second Temple.

תגים

• 18th c
• calendar

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of objects found in the home of R. Yosef after his death. Very poor (?), but important details not found elsewhere. See Goitein's note card for further information. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter also makes a note of “our colleagues at Qūṣ.” (Eliyyahu Ashtor, “The Number of Jews in Medieval Egypt,” JJS 18 (1967), 18; and S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:347, 603.) "Do not send me the biqyār (a goat-hair garment?), because I am not well, and I am thinking of how you will fare after my death.

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תגים

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• al-malik al-aziz
• al-malik al-mu'azzam
• damascus
• illness
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Minute fragment mentioning the name Sulaymān Kariyo/Kadiyo(?), possibly the Sephardi surname Carillo attested elsewhere in the geniza (AIU VII.D.62 - PGPID 30558). The design/drawing underneath the name has the appearance and layout of geomancy castings, which occasionally mention individuals by name in the upper question section (T-S AS 144.7 - PGPID 18740).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal notes notarized by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Early 13th century. (1) Location: Cairo. […] Berakhot 3000 dirhams as loan. No additional details. (3) The same two men each produced 600 dirhams, each for a partnership to last a year. […] in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-Khayr al-Nafīs. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)

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תגים

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to Avraham ha-Sar (for the same addressee, see T-S Misc.28.64 and T-S 8J40.2). […] Also, the Nagid learned that the synagogue was without a cantor for Minha and Maariv of Shabbat. The cantors Faraj Allāh and ʿAbd al-Karīm are to report to the addressee and declare a ban of excommunication against themselves (!)

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תגים

• 14th c
• excommunication
• marital dispute
• yehoshua maimonides

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Wednesday, 23 Iyyar 1368 Seleucid (30 April 1057 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document. Abū Manṣūr Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh appoints Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. […] Abū Kathīr had died while some assets of his were still with two brothers of Abū Manṣūr, Daniel and Eli, and the brothers had also meanwhile died, leaving Abū Manṣūr as their heir. Abū Yūsuf is appointed to examine the accounts of all three deadmen, so that Abū Kathīr’s heirs can receive what is due to them.

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תגים

• account
• estate
• inheritance
• proxy
• will

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1134–1134 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book II, 49 (ח21). Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. […] Damaged and missing the ends of the lines. The letter mainly deals with business, much of it in pepper and textiles. It mentions that a ship capsized at the entrance to the city [in fact, the join clarifies that it was a man named Yarbaḥ who drowned] (r15); that Maḍmūn b.

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תגים

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• ib4
• (+ 2 עוד)

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1130–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is another copy of the letter preserved: PGPID 5438 (India Book II,13 and II, 14). […] Goitein and Friedman suggest this is the Maldives, but Lambourn ("Twelfth-century Malabar through Geniza sources," in Sur les Chemins d'Onagre, 2018) says the Laccadives would be a more logical itinerary en route to Aden. The word derives from dvīpa in Sanskrit or Malayalam, meaning "islands," so the reference in the letter is vague enough to support multiple interpretations.

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תגים

• ib2
• india book
• maldives

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed trousseau of Bint Menahem (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 403, and from Goitein's index cards)

תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד